Experiment with Twitter and getting to know our co-workers

My company holds an all-hands off-site once a year where the entire company comes together to meet and share ideas.

This year our off-site was held in July and brought together over 200 employees from all our locations spread across close to ten states.

One of the major topics of discussion was focused around how we can get to know one another given we are so widely dispersed and don't have many opportunities to interact.

We use the normal means of communication one would expect: instant messaging, email, and when absolutely necessary the telephone. But these means don't necessarily provide us with a sense of who we are talking to.

As an experiment, our CTO (Chief Technology Officer) created a Twitter account and invited the entire company to also create Twitter accounts and follow his account and he would in turn follow theirs.

I think I'll try this out for a while and see if it helps me to get to know my fall-flung co-workers.

My Twitter account is HunterTech

My only concern is that the only people who join in are the ones I probably already know.

I'll check-in periodically to let you know how its going.